Shingle



M. HALPRIN Dec. 3l, 1929.

SHINGLE Filed Aug. 28, 1928 Patented Dec. 31, 1929 UNITED STATES MARTIN HALIPRIN, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK SHINGLE Application filed August 28, 1928. Serial No. 302,474.

This invention relates to shingles for roofing and analogous purposes and has among its objects the provision of an improved shingle and fastening-therefore which permitsthe shingles to be laid in a rapid accurate and eilicient manner and without having the heads of nails or other metallic fastening exposed to the action of weather.

Another object of the invention is to provide an improved flexible shingle and a fastening co-ordinated therewith, which fastening has guiding coaction with the shingles between which it is positioned whereby the location of the fastening is predetermined, and the fastening being adapted to receive therebeneath the bent under flap of a shingle which passes over the fastener and conceals the same.

A further object of the invention is the provision of improved shingle devices having the lower portions thereof of triangular or other geometrical form with the lower corners of the triangular portions bent. under and there being improved fastening devicesto receive the said corners therebeneath and with the corners so constructed as to require a minimum of material in the shingling device.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will become apparent as the specification proceeds.

With the aforesaid objects in view, the invention consists in the novel combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described in their preferred embodiments, pointed out in the subjoined claims, and illustrated on the annexed drawing, wherein like parts are designated by the same reference characters throughout the several views.

In the drawing:

Figure l is a lview of a shingling device showing one of the corners bent under and another of the corners exposed for observation.

Fig. 2 is a diagrammatic view showing the arrangement of the shingling devices and the fasteners, in shingling a roof, or the like.

Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged plan view of a fastening plate.

Fig. 5 is an edge view thereof 1n elevation.

Fig. 6 is a sectional View taken on line 6-6 of Fig. 2.

The advantages of the invention as here outlined are best realized when all of its .features and instrumentalities are combined 1n one and the same structure, but, useful devlces may be produced embodying less than the whole.

It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention appertains, that the same may be incorporated, in several differcnt constructions. The accompanying drawing, therefore, is submitted merely as showing lie preferred exemplication of the invenion.

Generally described, the invention provides an improved shingle construction wherein each of the shinglesvhas a bent under flap to engage under a fastening plate. The said plate may be of triangular form to lie wholly between adjacent shingles or the triangular portions thereof, and is provided with flanges whereby a space is formed under the plate for the easy reception of a shingle iiap. The said flanges also have guiding coaction with the adjacent shingles whereby the location of the fastening is predetermined. Each of the fastening consequently acts to facilitate the laying of the shingles in an accurate and rapid manner. While the shingles may be made of the four sided type or of any rectangular or geometrical form well known in the art, it is preferred that a shingle device be employed having a plurality of lower triangular por'- tions which are normally exposed in the roof and afford the usual appearance after the shingles have been laid. The lower corners of the said triangular portions are bent under to form the flaps aforementioned. Accords ingly in laying a single of this construction, a plurality of the flaps coact with a plurality of fastening plates whereby the shingle is alined with a high degree of accuracy. The upper portion of the shingle device may be of any desired conformation that is consistent with economy of material. In order that a minimum of material be required I have found that it is necessary to slot the flaps for the reception of the nails that secure the fastening plates to the roof. From this construction it results that the transverse or widthwise dimension of the shingle is kept at a minimum. This is further accomplished by making the fastening of trapezoidal form, and causing the shingle devices to correspond thereto, at the lengthwise edges between the lower portions of the shingle devices. Preferably, the said plates are formed with marks or openings so that the nails are retained in a predetermined position with respect to the plates so that the alinement of the slots with the nails is both easy and accurate. Each of the nails securing the fastening device to the roof also engages a shingle of a lower course so that in the finished roof there are more than two nails securing each shingle in place. Other nails may of course be added if desired. In each case the heads of the nails are covered by the shingles so that they are not exposed to the action of the weather and also to assure the maximum neatness in the roof.

Referring in detail to the drawing, 10 denotes a device embodying the invention. The same is made of any suitable material, preferably flexible, and of the proper weather resisting composition. The shingles has lower triangular portions 11, while the upper portion 12 thereof is relatively straight throughout. The lower corners 13 of the triangular portions are bent under to form flaps 14. The said flaps are formed with slots 15 extending from the apices of the corners in a direction at right angles to the creases of the fiaps and in spaced relation to said creases.

The fastening device 16 embodying the invention is made of a thin material which possesses the requisite stren th for which purpose a metal is preferaby employed. The said fastening consists of a trapezoidal plate having flanges 17 along the arms thereof. The base line 18 of the fastening is free to provide a space or cavity beneath the plate. The fastening is formed with a mark or hole 19 in predetermined position with respect thereto. Through the said hole is passed fastening means such, for example, as nail 2O for securing the fastening device to a roof or the like. The material about the hole 19 may be slightly countersunk. To prevent the fastening device from becoming convexed downward, on striking the nail home, there is a positive spacer means 21, in the form of a ridge which is struck and folded downward at line 211. The end 21b of the said ridge terminates in spaced relation to the edge 18 of the fastening device. In practice, the hole 19 may be formed first, and then the ridge constructed. However, I do not desire to limit myself to the specific fastening device shown, as the same can be madein other forms, and also as a casting.

In laying the shingles, the fastening devices 16 are placed between adjacent shingles 1() or between the triangular portions 11 thereof with the flanges 17 in guiding coaC- tion so as to predetermine the location of the fastening devices. After the nails 20 have been driven home, the said fastening devices constitute anchorages that are adapted to receive therebeneath the flaps 14 with the slots of the latter receiving the nails 20. In this manner the shingles 10 are laid in aecurate alinement with each other. Each of the nails 20 passes through the portion l2 of a shingle of the next lower course whereby the various shingles are securely held against movement. If desired, additional nails may be employed, as, for example, at 22 through the portion 12 centrally between the ends of the shingle and in proximity to the fastening device 16. The nail 22 will keep this part of the shingle against the roof and facilitate the positioning of a fastening device in guiding coaction between the triangular portions 11 thereof.

It is thus seen that I have provided a device that fultills the several objects of the invention and is well adapted to meet the conditions of practical use.

I claim:

1. A shingle having a bent under flap having a slot, a plate, and a nail securing said plate to a roof, or the like, said flap engaging under said plate and with the nail re ceived in the slot, said plate having a downwardly offset portion at the nail to space the plate from the roof for the reception of the fllap, said offset portidn being received in the s ot.

2. A shingle having a bent under flap having a slot, a plate, and a substantially central nail securing said plate to a roof, or the like, said flap engaging under said plate and with the nail received in the slot, said plate having a predetermined position for the nail, said plate having guiding coaction with adjacent shingles to set the plate, said plate having a downwardly offset spacing portion at the nail, said spacing portion being received in the slot.

3. In combination, a shingle having a bent under lower corner, and a fastening plate secured to a roof, or the like, said oorner engaging under said plate, said plate being flanged to space the same for reception of the corner thereunder, said flanges contacting adjacent shingles to position the fastening and a central nail through the plate, the said corner having a slot to receive the nail.

4. A shingle having its lower portions of triangular form, the corners of said portions being bent under to provide flaps, and means to secure the said fiaps to a roof, or the like, said means being positioned wholly between adjacent lower portions of shingles of the next lower course, said flaps engaging under said means, said means having guiding coaction with the triangular portions between which they are positioned, said means including fastening projections extending into the roof, said flaps being slotted to receive the said projections, said means having downwardly oset spacing portions to contact the roof, and facilitate engagement of the fla s under said means, said slots receiving t e spacing portions.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

MARTIN HALPRIN. 

